Aesthetica Magazine - Mixed Messages
Mixed Messages Filmmaker Rhea Storr, who won the 2020 Aesthetica Art Prize, uses the concept of carnival to evoke the contrasts and conflicts bound up within one version of modern British-Caribbean identity. âIt is really quite impossible to be affirmative about anything which one refuses to question.â This quote, from James Baldwinâs Notes of a Native Son, serves as a kind of epigram to Rhea Storrâs 2017 film Junkanoo Talk. Suitably enough, it epitomises the mixture of affection and scrutiny with which Storrâs work explores black and mixed-race British-Caribbean id...
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